"In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life."
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"I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom."
"When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real."
"When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world, that is when, and only when we come to it"
"There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this."
"To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong."
"There's a lot of terminology, like "washes whiter than snow," and these things which when they're said in a uniracial congregation, they just go fine. But when they're said in a mixed congregation, some people will get offended and wonder, "Why are you saying that? What are you saying?""
"And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty."
"When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker."
"No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live."
"...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers."
"I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he's in"
"We were interviewing an author, and we started talking about how so many of them - Salinger, Shaw, Fitzgerald - were really an odd bunch. They put a barrier around themselves, and not many people got through it. This was the spark that I really latched onto - someone who could break through the barrier. Of course [FINDING FORRESTER] really began to take shape when I began to wonder, what if it was a young person?"
"A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!"
"Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines."
"I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand."